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How to make a brain perceive an exoskeleton as its new body
Miguel Nicolelis is a man with a lot of pressure on his shoulders. Since claiming that he will build the robotic exoskeletal suit that enables a paraplegic to perform the opening kickoff during the...
View ArticleRobots: Is the uncanny valley real?
For decades the golden rule in robotics has been that the more lifelike a creation, the more likely it crosses the line from cute to creepy. But questions are being raised as to whether this is really...
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Clear Cranial Implant Lets Doctors See Into The Brain
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have debuted a new transparent cranial implant that could let doctors peek inside the brain without having to drill a new hole in the skull...
View ArticleBlack Is the New Black with AR Drone Refresh
Parrot's latest AR Drone upgrade, the Power Edition, features a new piano black hull, up to 36 minutes of flight time, and some swanky new prop colors. Plus, watch an AR Drone reenact the exploits of...
View ArticleRevolutionary Artificial Muscles Can Now Lift Loads 80 Times Their Weight
A research team from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has created efficient artificial, or “robotic” muscles, which could carry a weight 80 times its own and able to...
View ArticleNASA wants to build giant spacecraft with 3D printing spiders
Right now it's easy to think of NASA's glory days as being behind it. China and Europe are sending rockets to space stations, private industry is creating space tourism and NASA's space shuttle program...
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Dash Robotics Developing Indestructible Biomimetic Roachbots for Everyone
Finally, finally, Dash Robotics has decided to take our money in exchange for one of their incredible bio-inspired robot toys. If you're not familiar with Dash, you should probably go read this...
View ArticleFuture factories let workers build a car from home
Machines that can be controlled over the internet open up the possibility of factory workers joining the home-working revolution THE factories of the future will look very different from those today,...
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Virgin Galactic successfully tests re-entry, prepares for space tourism in 2014
Virgin Galactic is one of the firms pushing ahead with plans to bring space tourism down to affordable levels. The latest tests of VSS Enterprise, originally known as SpaceShipTwo, have successfully...
View ArticleSmart Dust: Swarms of Mini Sensor Nodes Powered By Integrated Solar Cells
Tiny solar cells applied directly to a silicon chip are a potential way of efficiently and reliably powering wireless sensor networks in the near future. Above all, this would simplify large-scale...
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Invisibility cloak made from Teflon can be created in just 15 minutes
Chinese researchers have succeeded in using a highly novel approach to craft a Teflon-based invisibility cloak in just 15 minutes. The process, called topology optimization, uses computer software to...
View ArticlePossibility of Selectively Erasing Unwanted Memories
The human brain is exquisitely adept at linking seemingly random details into a cohesive memory that can trigger myriad associations -- some good, some not so good. For recovering addicts and...
View ArticleArtificial-intelligence research revives its old ambitions
A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims at nothing less than unraveling the mystery of intelligence. The birth of artificial-intelligence...
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12-Year-Old Developer Is a Robot-Building Genius
Rohan Agrawal builds robots — and he's not even a teenager yet. While most kids his age likely spent their summer playing video games or on the monkey bars, the 12-year-old wunderkind tinkered away at...
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Robo-mate exoskeleton under development in Europe
Efforts to develop an exoskeleton for the workplace are under way, backed by EU funds. Twelve research institutions from seven European countries are involved in the Robo-mate project, which hopes to...
View ArticleLive Concert’s Light Show Powered by Musician’s Mind
Instead of entrusting the light show to a technician, Mickey Hart, former percussionist for the Grateful Dead, makes sure that he is the one in control — by controlling the lights using his brainwaves....
View ArticleRobots Learning Better Ways to Ask Clueless Humans for Help
A lot of the time, robots seem pretty dumb to us humans. It's not entirely a surprise, then, that a lot of the time, humans apparently seem pretty dumb to robots. If you're a robot, it turns out to be...
View ArticleDoes consciousness arise from quantum processes in the brain?
Stuart Hameroff is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona — but he's a pariah as far as most neuroscientists are concerned. The reason? Consciousness, he dares say,...
View ArticleHow and Where Imagination Occurs in Human Brains
Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other...
View ArticleGraphene photodetector integrated into computer chip
The novel material graphene and its technological applications are studied at the Vienna University of Technology. Now scientists have succeeded in combining graphene light detectors with semiconductor...
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